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“Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.”

“Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.”

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.”

Home Beautiful Policy Objects Creatures Forests Preserves Consideration Wilderness Refuge Prosperous Wild Creatures

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.”

Years Made Use Home Remember Used Pieces Objects Taught Materials Mom Machines My Mom Singers Grandmother Flats My Grandmother Intriguing Sewing Pedals

Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.”

Use Home Desire Economy Objects Drink Taste Office Marketing Primaries Consumers Expensive Criteria Appliances Usability Objects Of Desire Soft Drinks

Author:Donald A. Norman

“His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.”

Ifs Home Past Pay Objects Stones Hatred Fortune Dear Miserable Compliment Ancestor Good Fortune What You Love Peninsulas Compliments You

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.”

Home Goal Enemy Objects Football Crosses Baseball March Territory

Author:George Carlin

“The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.”

“You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.”

Feels Trying Home Eye Lasts Figures Objects Building Please Comfortable Adults Filling Acquiring Things Building A Home

Author:Lauren Bacall

“The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.”

Home Faces House Rooms Accepting Feet Objects Cat Corners Familiar Folds Unfamiliar Cozy New Home Inanimate Objects

Author:Emily Carr

“It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.”

Home One Thing Security Objects Sorrow Angel Bounds Dear Affection Ease Pluck Vanishing True Home

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.”

Book Ideas Home Objects Source Library Visuals Volume Unending Most Inspiring

Author:Maira Kalman

“Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.”

Thinking Shows Home Certain Hours Effort Audience Objects Witness Intimacy Performing Lenses

Author:Stephen Colbert

“In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!”

“When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”

Way Trying Use Home Used Asks Games Names Language Objects Essence Originals Everyday Oneself Philosopher Metaphysics Propositions Metaphysical Everyday Use

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.”

Source: To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

“When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to be published by them. Abrams books are special-when you hold one in your hands, you have the feeling that this book needed to be made. I once heard an artist say that books are fetish objects-I think Abrams gets that, because their books demand to be treasured. So who better to give comics art its proper due? I feel privileged to have found a home with Abrams.”

Thinking Giving Feels Firsts Art Made Book Feelings Home Hands Wanted Artist Found Saws Heard Special Objects Type Needed Demand Dues Privileged Fetish Treasured Abram

Author:Jeff Kinney

“All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.”

Giving Looks Home Millions Objects Kings Consumers Abandon Rescue Crowns Printed Begging

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.”

Want Home Design Objects Keys Harmony Notes Strive Peaceful Atmosphere Interior Design Decorating

Author:Charlotte Moss

“The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be taken for granted; you feel that Creation is going on in your sight. You see things in the high air that you do not see farther down in the lowlands. In the high country all objects bear upon you, and you touch hard upon the earth. From my home I can see the huge, billowing clouds; they draw close upon me and merge with my life.”

Feels I Can Country Hard Character Home Earth Hours Taken Air Creation Objects Huge Bears Draws Seasons Sight Clouds Granted Landscape Day To Day Taken For Granted

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.”

Thinking Needs Home Spirit Space Quality Objects Empty Bounds Relax Calming Empty Space

Author:John Pawson

“In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!”

Home Objects Safe Baseball

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.”

Want Stills Home Stuff Objects Connections

Author:Nate Berkus